NDLI: Defending against the propagation of active worms

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Author	Fan, Xiang Xiang, Yang
Copyright Year	2009
Abstract	Active worms propagate across networks by employing the various target discovery techniques. The significance of target discovery techniques in shaping a worm’s propagation characteristics is derived from the life cycle of a worm. The various target discovery techniques that could be employed by active worms are discussed. It is anticipated that future active worms would employ multiple target discovery techniques simultaneously to greatly accelerate their propagation. To accelerate a worm’s propagation, the slow start phase in the worm’s propagation must be shortened by letting the worm infect the first certain percentage of susceptible hosts as soon as possible. Strategies that future active worms might employ to shorten the slow start phase in their propagation are studied. Their respective cost-effectiveness is assessed. A novel active defense mechanism is proposed, which could be an emerging solution to the active worm problem. Our major contributions in this article are first, we found the combination of target discovery techniques that can best accelerate the propagation of active worms; second, we proposed several strategies to shorten a worm’s slow start phase in its propagation and found the cost-effective hit-list size and average size of internally generated target lists; third, we proposed a novel active defense mechanism and evaluated its effectiveness; and fourth, we proposed three novel discrete time deterministic propagation models of active worms.
Starting Page	167
Ending Page	200
Page Count	34
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09208542
Journal	The Journal of Supercomputing
Volume Number	51
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15730484
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2009-04-26
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Network security Invasive software Worms Propagation Modeling Defense Computer Science Processor Architectures Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Theoretical Computer Science Information Systems Hardware and Architecture Software

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